Dona
Dona is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 302nd, in 1933.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1954487 births
- Best rank
- #302in 1933
- Since 1880
- 18,852people given the name
The story in the numbers
18,852 girls have been named Dona in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1954, with 487 births.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 487 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1944, and the 1950s alone account for 21%. It has spent 91 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Dona | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 339 | |
| 1890s | 459 | |
| 1900s | 443 | |
| 1910s | 757 | |
| 1920s | 2,390 | |
| 1930s | 3,418 | |
| 1940s | 3,420 | |
| 1950s | 3,910 | |
| 1960s | 2,247 | |
| 1970s | 792 | |
| 1980s | 323 | |
| 1990s | 187 | |
| 2000s | 97 | |
| 2010s | 57 | |
| 2020s | 13 |
In 1954, its biggest year
Dona was the 391st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1954 were Mary, Linda, Deborah, Patricia and Susan. See all of 1954.
Names that rose and fell with Dona
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Pollypeak 1964
- Kittypeak 1947
- Nitapeak 1956
- Pattiepeak 1958
- Ellenpeak 1951
- Rosettapeak 1948
- Nanpeak 1947
- Marthapeak 1947
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.